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_These tomb guardians walk their rounds silently, an ornate sword in its hand. Glittering scarabs scurry from under their deformed and yellowed linen wrappings._ **Willing Sacrifices.** The undying servants of the god‑kings and queens of ancient...
Large Monstrosity, CR 9. From Tome of Beasts 2023.
_The isonade’s gargantuan thrashing tail is lined with cruelly hooked barbs, and it delights in destruction. When it approaches a coastal village, its tail shoots high into the air from beneath the waves, and it smashes all ships, docks, and nets ...
Large Monstrosity, CR 11. From Creature Codex.
_This oddly colored cat appears at first to be a powerful panther. Its wide mouth pulls into something like a human grin, and its knowing eyes hint at intelligence beyond that of a typical predator._ Enemies of elves and blink dogs, kot bayuns a...
_This winged woman’s face is wreathed in a headdress of feathers; her luminous eyes and aquiline nose lend beauty to her feral demeanor. Her sharp, taloned feet seem even more inhuman by comparison._ **Harpy Queens.** An owl harpy is a queen amo...
_This twisted, unnatural beast looks like the unholy union of squid and spider. Its shell-covered core has six small rubbery legs, peculiar antennae, and six tentacles around a squid’s enormous beak. Unlike krakens and giant squid, krake spawn can...
_A leshy is a strange man wearing loose scraps of clothing and covered in bark and root-like growths. The hair and beard that frame his piercing green eyes writhe like living vines._ **Expanding the Wild.** Solitary leshy tend plants and animals...
_Often a shadhavar is first noticed for the haunting melody it makes, and some mistake them for unicorns or fey steeds. On closer inspection, they look like desiccated unicorns, their skeletons clearly visible beneath their taut flesh._ **Shadow...
_These great cats pad noiselessly, while tendrils of smoke drift off their sleek gray coats, leaving misty whorls in their wake. Their eyes shift from dull, pallid orbs to pitch black slits. Their lips curl up into a fang-revealing smile as their ...
An amalgam of various bird species crows proudly as it hops forward._ **Chimeric Avian.** The body of an august rooster is nearly human-sized with the head of a pheasant, the body of a perching duck, the tail of a peacock, the legs of a heron, t...
This creature is a disturbing combination of wolf and locust, and the smoke it exhales hovers thickly around it. Fur surrounds its locust head, and long, insectoid legs extend from its canine body._ **Unnatural Origin.** Brimstone locusthounds a...
The putrid stench of death wafts off a grotesquely muscled vulture with glowing green eyes. It opens its mouth in a shrill call, rotting meat dripping from its beak._ Death vultures are giant birds transformed by their diet of undead flesh. **...
The colláis is a large, deer-like creature covered in thick, black fur. A great rack of antlers grows from its thick skull, in which prominent eye sockets display two red embers for eyes. The monster has no mouth; instead, a coarse beard grows in ...
_This swanlike creature’s feathers are made of shining metal. When it inhales, the feathers on its chest glow red hot._ Eala are beautiful but deadly creatures native to the plane of Shadow. They grow feathers like their Material Plane counterpa...
_The paving stones underfoot suddenly lurch and tumble over one another. Thousands of tiny limbs, pincers, and stingers break from the stony surface and frantically scuttle forward._ A cobbleswarm is made up of tiny, crablike creatures with smoo...
A **death dog** is an ugly two-headed hound that roams plains, and deserts. Hate burns in a death dog's heart, and a taste for humanoid flesh drives it to attack travelers and explorers. Death dog saliva carries a foul disease that causes a victim...
This winged female has a short torso and long, gangly legs. Her wingspan is wider than her body is tall. Despite her awkward appearance, she moves with incredible grace._ **Protectors of the Marsh.** Egret harpies look after marshland flora and ...
_Malformed like a goblin, this creature bears one large, strange eye in the middle of its face. It wears dark and dirty rags, and its spindly claws and arms match its hunched torso._ **Ferocious Attitude.** Likho are scrappy fighters; they weake...
This lengthy, two-headed, serpentine creature has three dorsal fins and six legs._ **Degenerate Dragons.** Pal-rai-yuks were once a species of underwater dragons. In their arrogance, they angered a sea deity who cursed them. To escape the deity’...
_A great knot of scabrous rats scrabbles together as a mass, with skulls, bones, and flesh entangled in the whole. Teeth, eyes, and fur all flow as a single disturbing rat swarm walking on two legs._ **Fused at the Tail.** A rat king forms when ...
This bat-like creature has luxurious blue fur covering every part of its body. It has a heavily wrinkled face, large, bulbous eyes, and twin horn-like antennae. Thin sable wings unfurl from its back, and its fur emits tiny sparks of blue lightning...
This strange dog is hairless except for the thick, dark fur that runs along its bony, ridged back._ **Arctic Legends.** Oral histories of the north are rich with tales of the qiqirn. The tales say they are drawn to mankind’s warm hearths and hom...
_Often called elephant centaurs by humans and gnolls, loxodas are massive creatures that combine the torso of an ogre and the body of an elephant. Hating and fearing all strangers, they live in open plains and scrubland._ **Nomadic Families.** L...